Well, yes, but perhaps not for the reason you think... Killing a tenth of them would leave 90% of them alive. Killing a tenth of them and then another tenth (if that's what you're going for; hard to know for sure from the quote) would leave 81%
Even in a historical setting, a ninja probably had one of the most "job-like" occupations as modern people could understand the term. You weren't born into it, you freely chose it, you performed a service and received a payment for a pre-set period of time. A kid who wants to be a samurai when he grows up, on the other hand, is just being facile.
every day saying often have a real history...pulling my leg...comes from when prisoners were hanged in public and after they fell through the trap the relatives would pull on their legs for a quicker death
The most common street name in the UK is High Street. The most common street name in the US is Second (or 2nd) Street.
What would normally be called First Street is often called Main, Center, or something similar which cuts down considerably on the existence of First Streets.
Little know fact: had my daughter not been in the car to tell me what to do, I'd still be circling on the roundabout between the airport and Inverness, Scotland, three years after I entered the damn thing.
Roundabouts give me terrible anxiety and I still don't really know how they work. I think we have about two within a 300 mile radius.
Never have I ever been to a place with roundabouts, and thought to myself, 'you know what this place really needs? MOrE ROundABOUtS!!!,'
In a metro area with 250K population, we have exactly three roundabouts, all in the middle of nowhere with little traffic. I understand that if a city wants to rebuild an intersection, the federal government will only help with the funding if it's reconfigured as a roundabout.
We call them "rotaries" in RI. I heard somewhere that we were one of only a few states that didn't call them roundabouts. I have no idea if that's true. (similar to us calling sandwiches "grinders")